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tradtrad100 t1_jed1gtu wrote

Is this uplifting? Apparently kangaroos are an invasive species plus it means they'll source the materials from elsewhere which might not be necessarily better.

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WCRugger t1_jee1qlf wrote

Not invasive as they are a native. Issue is the whole boom and bust cycle around breeding. More often boom. During boom years where food is plentiful they breed like well, rabbits. This applies pressure to their food sources which leads to starvation. It's worse is bust years particularly following a boom. Then they start invading paddocks and eating what feed there is reserved for livestock. Even though livestock are an introduced species. They are culled to avoid this and the inevitable starvation among their population that results.

That said there's usually somewhere around 45-50 million of them. So my point is. I don't understand animals rights activists sometimes. As much as they may hate it serves a purpose and if a byproduct can generate a revenue streams all the better.

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wvrnnr t1_jeebnyv wrote

I much rather the concept of taking resources from wild, sustainable animal sources than industrialised domesticated animals (as long as it's humane, which I believe the kangaroo culling is).

it's part of a natural lifecycle rather than a factory line where the poor animals live solely to be a human product. if u love nature, this is the better way.

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ethot_thoughts t1_jeer74u wrote

Humans are so detached from our place in the food web. Monoculture and industrial farming were one of the worst things we ever did

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